Re: [PATCH 3/3] introduce "format" date-mode
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Jun 30, 2015, 17:50 UTC
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- <20150630175011.GA5349@peff.net>
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:22:18AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> >> strbuf_addf(&f, "%s ", fmt);
> >
> > Basically I was trying to avoid making any assumptions about exactly how
> > strftime works. But presumably "stick a space in the format" is a
> > universally reasonable thing to do. It's a hack, but it's contained to
> > the function.
>
> Why can't I shake this feeling that (" %s", fmt), i.e. prepend not
> append, is the safer thing to do than to append?Because then removing the extra space involves `memmove` of the buffer, rather than just shortening the length by one.
-Peff